Media release – Frank Formby, independent candidate for Clark, 5 March 2024

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Frank Formby is an independent candidate for Clark, supported by the Local Network.  He is standing to promote common-sense policies about issues that affect voters in Clark.

Frank has wide experience in the health sector throughout Australia and New Zealand as a palliative care specialist and was a senior lecturer at the Australian Institute of Health Innovation, UNSW.

If elected he will:

  • Reduce his salary to the median Tasmanian wage
  • Use the money saved for additional staff to serve the voters of Clark
  • Employ a specialist in issues affecting youth.

Improving the health system

  • Promoting the ‘right care, right place, right time’ approach to care used successfully in New Zealand
  • Expanding Urgent Care Centres
  • Improving the co-ordination of care in the community, including aged care facilities, to eliminate ramping and bed block

Reducing cost of living pressures

  • Improve availability of low-cost housing
  • Mandate energy efficiency and liveability standards for rental properties
  • Encourage supermarket competition

Transparency and accountability in government

  • Full immediate disclosure of political donations
  • All politicians to record and publish meetings with lobbyists and civil society groups
  • Increase funding and investigatory powers of the Ombudsman Tasmania

More detail will be added to the Local Network website shortly.

I can be contacted at any time by email or telephone. [email protected] – 0493 432 906